Farmworkers

Job description

Crops: Watermelons, Cantaloupes, Sweet Corn, Pumpkins, Broccoli, Cabbage, Cauliflower, Gourds, Grains, Beans, Hay, Honey, Lettuce, Melons, Plants, Soybeans and Corn.

Sanitation Requirements: For food and general personal safety purposes, all workers will be required and expected to follow common sanitary practices at all times. This is particularly critical when hand harvesting crops for human consumption. Employees are required to cleanse their hands by washing them thoroughly with soap and water after using the bathroom and before entering the fields for harvest activities or the packing facility for packing operations. Workers will perform various duties to plant, cultivate harvest, pack, grade, repack produce grown on the employer’s farm. This may include preparing ground/field for planting by removing rocks, sticks, trees, and brush.

Workers may also be required to install and move irrigation pipe/systems, Aluminum pipe, and T-tape maintaining system. Workers may be required to operate forklift; various farm implements and farm licensed vehicles. Workers will be weeding, loading trucks, record keeping, cutting corn stalks and bundling, trimming trees, piling/burning, assist bee keeper to move boxes or place boxes in field, and perform farm and facility maintenance including mowing grass and performing landscaping duties. Workers must follow their employer’s instructions to ensure all sanitation procedures are followed.

Cantaloupes, Pumpkins, Gourds, Pumpkins, Squash and Watermelons: Workers will be expected to punch and make holes to prepare the black plastic for planting plugs. Workers must be careful not to damage the tender young plugs. Workers will be expected to perform routine maintenance activities including pulling weeds and cleaning drip irrigation equipment. At harvest, workers will be expected to select the melons based on the standard disclosed to the worker by the supervisor. Workers will walk along rows and cut melons according to size, color, shape, and degree of maturity using a knife. May carry to trailer or windrow for loading at a later time. Also, the workers will be expected to grade, sort, and place in shipping containers. After harvest is completed, workers will be required to remove mature melon vines from the plastic as well as preparing the plastic for the next planting cycle, if applicable. May also be required to remove old or damaged plastic and irrigation drip tape along with any other trash, rocks, or debris from the planting areas. Workers will assist in preparation of field areas prior to installation of new plastic and drip tape.

Sweet Corn: Workers will plant, cultivate and harvest vegetables. Workers will be required to remove weeds by hand or with a hoe. Workers will bend and stoop to pick vegetables according to size, color, shape and degree of maturity and place into field containers. Workers may carry full container weighing approximately fifty (50) lbs. and empty into field bin or load onto trailer. May be required to pull and discard culls as directed by supervisor. Pickers will take care not to bruise or scar produce. Works may also be required to cut corn stalks and bundling. Pre-harvest activities may include staking, tying, training, transplanting, cutting with bundling and pruning.

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Special Requirements

Must have 3 months verifiable experience working with row crops. Drug testing will be conducted after hire at employer's expense, post-accident or upon suspicion. Any employee who declines to take or fails this drug test will be terminated and paid for all hours worked, if any.